NTU-KU Joint Funding Final Report【Section 1】
NTU principle investigator
Name (last name, first name)
Position
Faculty/Department

KU principle investigator
Name (last name, first name)
Position
Faculty/Department

HU, Ming-Che
Professor
Department of Bioenvironmental SystemsEngineering
NAKAMURA, Kimihito
Professor
Division of Environmental Science andTechnology, Graduate School of AgricultureType(s) of funding applied☐ Funding Type 1 (General Funding) only
☐ Funding Type 2 (ECR Funding) only
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Project title
Stochastic hydrology and environmental data analysis for disaster riskmanagement
Period of project
From dd/mm/yy
to dd/mm/yy

From 01/04/2023
to 30/04/2024

Summary of the project (approx. 100 words)
Under climate change, extreme hydrological events seriously impact the water supply of
the agricultural water resource system. This project provides systematic analysis methods
and tools to evaluate the agricultural water resource supply and demand. The purpose of
the study is to evaluate how agricultural water resource management affects water supply
stability and drought resistance. This project conducts stochastic hydrology andenvironmental data analysis for sustainable water resources management. This research
simulates uncertain water supply and demand based on historical hydrological data.
Prof. Kimihito NAKAMURA gave a keynote speech at the annual meeting of Taiwan
Agricultural Engineer Society, on Nov 10th, 2023.
Prof. Kimihito NAKAMURA and Associate Prof. Takehide HAMA from Kyoto
University visited the National Taiwan University. They exchanged their researchexperiences and discussed future collaboration with Prof. Ming-Che HU and otherTaiwanese researchers.

Photographs with captions*Please submit digital files (such as JPEG or GIF files) of the photographs used in yourreport as attachments. The size of each image should be at least 4MB, so that it can be used
for printed materials. Please ensure that none of the photographs submitted will cause any
issues relating to portrait rights.

Prof. Kimihito NAKAMURA gave a keynote speech at the annual meeting of Taiwan
Agricultural Engineer Society, on Nov 10th, 2023.
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Prof. Kimihito NAKAMURA (right), Prof. Ming-Che HU (left), and Prof. Chen (center)discussed research after the keynote speech.

Prof. Ming-Che HU (right) and Associate Prof. Takehide HAMA (second from the right)
exchanged research experiences and discussed future collaboration.

URL at which project outcomes can be viewed (Optional)*E.g. workshop notifications/programs/reports, evidence of academic papers published orotherwise made available, etc.
URL:

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NTU-KU Joint Funding Final Report【Section 3】
Visiting ECR*Name (last name, first name)

YU, Cheng-Wei

Position

Assistant Professor

Faculty/Department

Department
EngineeringPeriod of Stay

15/02/2024 to 27/02/2024(From dd/mm/yy to dd/mm/yy)

ofBioenvironmental

Systems

Visiting ECR*
Name (last name, first name)

WANG, Yu-Li

Position

Assistant Professor

Faculty/Department

Department
ofBioenvironmental
Engineering
15/02/2024 to 27/02/2024

Period of Stay

(From dd/mm/yy to dd/mm/yy)

Systems

Host researcher*
Name (last name, first name)

NAKAMURA, Kimihito

Position

Professor

Division of Environmental Science and Technology,
Graduate School of Agriculture*Please complete if the host researcher is different from the KU principal investigator.
Faculty/DepartmentAchievements and outcomes of ECR stay (approx. 100–250 words)
During the stay, we introduced each other's research and discussed its contents.
The following research topics of KU laboratory were discussed related hydrological andenvironmental problems:
1. Paddy dams to mitigate floods as one of the concrete ways to enhance the multifunctionof rice paddies.
2. Irrigation control by monitoring pH of river water containing arsenic.
3. Effectiveness of treated sewage sludge fertilizer as phosphorus fertilizer.
4. Organizational water management to control methane emission from rice paddies.
5. Dispersion characteristics of solute in unsaturated soil columns.
6. Soil carbon and water management in paddy field as climate change mitigation.
7. Development of agricultural water management support platform.
8. Irrigation information support system in orange fields using spatial monitoring of leaf
surface temperature.
Some of topics were discussed with presentation by graduate students and Q&A sessions.
For the study #8 above, field observation plots were visited.
Furthermore, the following topics of NTU researchers were also discussed.
1. Streamflow simulations by river network modeling.
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2. Estimation of heterogeneous characteristics in groundwater flow and aquifer.
3. Characterizing subsurface using rocket-triggered lightning.
In particular, it was found that there is potential for collaboration in the construction andoperation of river flow and flooding models, groundwater flow models, and chemicaltransport models in soil.
In East and Southeast Asian regions, water management in agriculture, especially in rice
paddy fields, is a major issue for mitigation and adaptation to climate change, andcollaboration in this field would be a useful way to disseminate information from the Asianmonsoon region.

Photographs with captions*Please submit digital files (such as JPEG or GIF files) of the photographs used in yourreport as attachments. The size of each image should be at least 4MB, so that it can be used
for printed materials. Please ensure that none of the photographs submitted will cause any
issues relating to portrait rights.

Prof. Kimihito NAKAMURA (right), Assistant Professor Cheng-Wei YU (center), andAssistant Professor Yu-Li WANG (left) discussed at Kyoto University.

URL at which project outcomes can be viewed (Optional)*E.g. workshop notifications/programs/reports, evidence of academic papers published orotherwise made available, etc.
URL:
*If there are multiple ECRs, please copy and paste this section and complete them foreach ECR.

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